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Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text (Paperback)

by Kristin Linklater (Author) "My intention in this book is to offer a de-mystifying approach to speaking Shakespeare's text..." (more)
Key Phrases: triple antithesis, being counted falsehood, mightst thou speak, First Folio, King Lear, Queen Margaret (more...)

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group; 1st edition (January 1, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1559360313
ISBN-13: 978-1559360319
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #115,389 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
triple antithesis, being counted falsehood, mightst thou speak, wrackful siege, battering days, chest lie hid, double antithesis, fearful meditation, honey breath hold, rocks impregnable, swelling scene, holy palmers, mine integrity, brightest heaven, iambic rhythm, grant thou, sprung rhythm, pentameter line, iambic pentameter

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First Folio, King Lear, Queen Margaret, The Winter's Tale, Dromio of Ephesus, Lady Anne, Lady Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream, Queen Elizabeth, Twelfth Night, Antipholus of Ephesus, King Henry, Dromio of Syracuse, King Richard, Master Sonnet, Complete Works, Great Chain of Being, Love's Labour's Lost, The Tempest, King John, Neil Freeman

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King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 7 pages
Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare on 7 pages
Romeo And Juliet (Saddleback Classics) by William Shakespeare on 7 pages
Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Readers, Level 3) by William Shakespeare on 7 pages
Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on 7 pages

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Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance by William B. Worthen on 4 pages
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Shakespeare After Mass Media by Prof. Richard Burt on page 125, and page 126
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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute necessary for the Shakespearean Scholar, April 10, 2000

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The master teacher Kristin Linklater has written a user-friendly, brilliant book on her approach to Shakespeare's language. Anyone interested in reading or performing Shakespeare shouldn't be without it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars How to take your Shakespeare to the next level, December 18, 2005

By	Johanna MacDonald "happeningfish" (Helsinki, Finland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In one of the most eloquent handbooks
I've ever had the pleasure to peruse,
Kristin Linklater guides you through a rich
and expertly constructed path designed
to help you give your voice to Shakespeare's text.
For her, the body and the voice are one:
an instrument that needs each part to work.
To speak the speech, you start with how it sounds -
the open vowels and clear consonants
each bring a unique bodily sensation.
Then you progress to what it actually means -
the content, the "emotional", the life -
and later bring this to poetic form.

Ms.L insists you also understand
Th' Elizabethans and their take on life -
her explanations always held me rapt.
Her methods are direct; each chapter builds
upon the one that came before. However,
this shouldn't mean the structure is rigid:
there's lots of room for your experiments.

This book is one of my best purchases.

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3.0 out of 5 stars All caught up in technical lingo, June 14, 2000

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This book has some good ideas but it is somewhat too cumbersome in it's technical language. It took several read overs to really understand what Kristin was trying invoke. This book is not a good source for new actors but may be more appropriate for those in upper college theater/drama class or master classes.

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